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...IMPERIAL ROCKEFELLER by Joseph E. Persico Simon & Schuster; 314 pages...
...been seen at the Bologna station shortly before the bombing. Affatigato had already been wanted in connection with the jail break of Terrorist Organizer Mario Tuti two years ago. Nevertheless, Italian police said that Affatigato's possible involvement in Bologna was far from certain. Cautioned Chief Investigator Luigi Persico: "Right now it's still a process of eliminating one false lead after another until we find out what happened...
...transfer, Galante was sent in late September to the medium-security federal prison at Danbury, Conn. Once again the armed men turned up at Lillo's bedside to tuck him in and stand guard. But also tracking Galante was a skilled Colombo family hit man, Carmine ("the Snake") Persico. Serving a 14-year sentence in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta for hijacking, the Snake somehow managed to get himself transferred to Danbury. But during the trip north, he was held briefly at the Lewisburg, Pa., federal prison and was visited there by another Colombo gangster. Federal authorities interpreted...
...which FBI officials refuse to name, 30 organized crime figures-the Who's Who of the area's underworld-filed FOI forms. The Drug Enforcement Administration has received requests for Government information from, among others, Mafiosi Carlos Marcello of New Orleans, Rene Picaretto of Buffalo, and Carmine Persico of Brooklyn...
...been officially announced. Hugh Morrow, for 15 years Rockefeller's speechwriter and press spokesman, will be the press secretary for the Vice President. James M. Cannon, a onetime political reporter who helped lobby revenue sharing through Congress, is expected to become Rockefeller's liaison with Congress. Joseph Persico, a former USIA staffer, will be the Veep's chief speechwriter, though he admits to experiencing "blank-page terror" when he starts composing a speech. "I now have trouble writing a business letter without making it sound like Caesar haranguing the Etruscans," he says. Ann Whitman, who was once...